Just recieved my Digisearch Meter....

[Dang]

....for my GT. I know a real clean spot to calibrate it too. I'll just toss a few quarters on the ground and dial her in to 170 as the detector's manual says. Right?

 

[Rick(ND)]

I would calibrate it to 180 so all the number will be those that we post on the forums. I don't know if Minelab made a mistake on the printing or if it was done so it don't copy Sun Rays numbers,but 180 is where most of us set ours.
There has been different ways to adjust the calibration and one is when you first turn the detector on holding it in the air it will show a negative number if it is not seeing a metal target. Art I believe posted the numbers you want to adjust to and will be right on. I just lay mine on a something and wave a coin on top of the coil trying to get the highest meter reading on the meter and stable and adjusting it. Many will just take a new dime or quarter as it will be the highest meter reading and throw it on the ground and wave the coil only over that coin also trying to get the highest meter reading and adjust to 180. Now all the copper pennies, dimes both silver and clad, the quarters both silver and clad and all half dollars will read 179-180 on the meter.Also larger piece of trash will read like this too with no number higher, if you do the calibration is off. The new zinc pennies and the IH plus some of the very first Wheaties will read 176-177 while my experience has been if the meter is calibrated to 180 the screw caps will read 177-178. Nickles if ruining freq 2 will be 144-145, but in freq 1 will be 146-147 on the GT.

Good luck, I think you will learn the Sovereign faster with the meter.
Rick

 

[adam in cal]

that manual is bunk ....calibrate that sucker to 180 on a U.S. quarter .......good deal for you the meter may take a bit to get acustomed to but its a great tool .

 

[Dang]

Thank you Rick and Adam. You guys are always a big help on this form. I'm naming my next two kids after you guys. Regardless of the gender!

 

[Art (NWOH)]

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[Rick(ND)]

This is getting bad as I get older I keep forgetting who's tip that was, but I thought it was when you turn on the detector the numbers would be 123 or something like that and if not to adjust it to that and it would be right on.
I am sure someone will remember who's post that was and post how it was done.

Rick

 

[Art (NWOH)]

Thought you meant a cheat sheet. One was posted recently.

The fast and dirty calibration....
Calibrate it once and switch to all metal. A 180 meter should read 124 or 125 in all metal or at turn on ( in either disc or all metal). If it reads anything else then just adjust to the default 124 or 125...which ever you get if you have calibrated to 180 in disc mode.

You get an instant calibration check every time you switch to all metal.

Once you know the majic number, you never have to carry a coin for calibration again.

For 550 meters the majic number is 384-385. Mine will be calibrated to 550 when the startup or all metal number is intermittently jumping back and forth between these two numbers.

HH

 

[Rick(ND)]

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[funkyoldude]

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